Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.
Mark Twain
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Ideas
Thirty
Person
Weather
Valuable
Eight
Hundred
Cold
Environment
Accustomed
Persons
Shade
More quotes by Mark Twain
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
Mark Twain
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.
Mark Twain
Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
Mark Twain
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Mark Twain
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
Mark Twain
The truth hurts, but silence kills.
Mark Twain
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain
I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
Mark Twain
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
Mark Twain
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
Mark Twain
He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Mark Twain
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
Mark Twain
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
Mark Twain
At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.
Mark Twain
